"Go and tell Yongli Xiao'er that this king respects him as the son of heaven and is already benevolent and righteous, and this guy still wants to take his beloved daughter as a concubine! Hum! It's ridiculous!" As Zhou Mubai expected, the King of Siam changed his face after hearing the envoy's intention, and categorically rejected the envoy's request, and took the opportunity to humiliate him.

Siam borders on Burma and Annam, although it is separated by a hundred miles from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but now the Manchu Qing Dynasty is powerful, and the King of Siam is naturally not stupid. When the Manchu Qing Dynasty settles accounts after the autumn, the first one to be used for surgery is probably Siam.

The Great Tomorrow is thin, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is like the sky, and under the contrast between the two, the King of Siam made a wise choice.

"If the king does not give an edict, then he will destroy the covenant of subordination? I have been in Siam in the year of Yongle as a country that will never be conquered, and today's king is like this, which is the way to defeat, and he will say goodbye. The envoy of the state changed color, reprimanded, and went away.

When the figure of the Ming envoy disappeared into the palace, a Siamese official said: "The minister heard that the new first emperor has been in charge of the country in Burma, why should the king offend the Ming envoy, it's a big deal to refuse politely." ”

The King of Siam smiled and said: "What do you know, I just want to make a show to the Manchurians, let them know that I Siam has broken with the Ming Dynasty, and then one of our envoys will go to Beijing City to ask the Qing Emperor to grant Siam permission to be a vassal country, and then the Qing Kingdom will see our sincerity, how can there be any reason not to allow it?"

"But this kid has to guard against it, this king will send an envoy to the Qing Dynasty now, and on the other hand, he will transfer troops to strictly guard the border of the Western Front, so that he can sit back and relax."

"The king is wise."

"Sell newspapers! Sell newspapers! Siam does not abide by the royal road, scolds my Ming envoy, arrogant, my dynasty envoy returns, Your Majesty is furious! ”

The news soon spread back to Haidu City, and the crowd was indignant for a while, and the Ming people have always boasted of the Celestial Empire. How could he bear such an insult, at this time, the newspaper of the palace had already published the original words of the King of Siam, so all kinds of invitations to conquer Siam flew into the cabinet like snowflakes, and it was rumored that the Ming sailors had gradually gathered in the western waters of Burma, which was only one step away from Siam. The marine battalions were also fully equipped, and the food and weapons were fully prepared. The war is imminent, just waiting for the emperor's decree, and the crusade of the Ministry of Rites will be spread everywhere.

Zhu Jun is not in a hurry, all the pieces of the war are left in China, Siam is a big country in the South Seas, there are more than 100,000 soldiers with armor, such a national strength, it is not easy for the Ming army under Zhu Jun to swallow it alone, Zhu Jun must wait for an opportunity. He paid more attention to the twists and turns of the royal court team in the Burmese official system.

"Wang Qiu. Have you ever told me about the front of the three armies? The death battalion is the vanguard. The death camp is at the forefront. Are you a pioneer? Zhu Jun summoned the commander of the death battalion, Wang Qiu, and asked sharply.

Wang Qiu's face was solemn. Said: "The last general will not dare to forget." ”

"Good. I know you have the courage to be a champion. There is something I want you to do today. ”

"Please show the emperor." Wang Qiu stood straight. Said with a wide chest.

The eastern part of Myanmar is much flatter. Every few miles, villages are scattered across the vast plains. The Burmese people here have no quarrel with the world. Peace and tranquility. The biggest conflict is only a fight between two villages over land. This time. A team of 100 people quietly came from Haidu. They lurked deep in the mountains nearby. He was dressed in Siamese attire. Holding a long knife. The edge of the sword and the earth looked terrifying in the secluded forest.

"Don't talk while you're moving. Do not leave the team. If someone is captured. You must no longer live in the world. Do you understand? "Wang Qiu was wearing the Siamese general's round armor. There was a chilling light in his eyes.

"Understood!" The soldiers' faces were solemn, and the hilts of their swords were hot on the ground with their hands.

"Ben will give you eight words, you have to memorize them." Wang Qiu's muscles twitched constantly, and he said sharply: "Kill them all, don't leave any chickens and dogs!" ”

"Kill!" A hundred long knives were raised high, and a strong murderous aura radiated from every soldier's eyes, everyone's face was distorted, and they opened their mouths. There was a terrifying roar.

Night. The tranquil village was broken by a group of Siamese soldiers who wielded long knives. Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, all roads leading to the outside of the village were blocked, and a frenzied slaughter was carried out in the village, innocent Burmese people screamed, and in the face of this group of Siamese soldiers who were like wild beasts, there was no resistance to the slaughter, and the slaughter lasted only a stick of incense, and the Siamese soldiers began to light torches, burning all the huts and utensils they could until they were reduced to ashes.

"The commander, one hundred and nine, not a single one remained."

"Let the brothers gather at the entrance of the village and hurry to the next target."

"The Last General's Order."

In Haidu, under the impetus of the people with a heart and the Di Bao, the call of the Han people to ask for war is getting higher and higher, in the Ming army, I don't know who started it, a blood letter of war was presented to the cabinet, and then the blood book gradually became popular within the Ming army, and soon spread all over the battalions of Shen Yong, Mountain, God Machine, Dare to Die, etc., the school newspaper is even more exaggerated, and the blood book of the soldiers is directly pasted on the genuine version of the Di newspaper, and the students of the school have also come to the square in front of the palace and are willing to abandon the pen and follow the army on an expedition.

This phenomenon is not surprising, although the Ming Dynasty died in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the mark of the Celestial Empire has been deeply imprinted into the hearts of the old and young remnants of the Ming Dynasty, Siam, a barbarian country so rude, the anger of the masses is inevitable.

And Zhu Jun didn't seem to be in a hurry at all, he repeatedly issued edicts asking his subjects to calm down, although the Siamese State was rude, but the Ming Dynasty tolerated all rivers, and only raised troops for the sake of disagreement, which was unkind, so it was better to forbear.

"Your Majesty, the brothers of the Shenji Camp are only waiting for Your Majesty's will to destroy the rebel king of Siam." The generals of the Ming army asked to see each other, and they all presented the soldiers to sign the blood letter.

"Your Majesty, the Siamese country has no heavens, Yelang is arrogant, and the soldiers are ready, just waiting for His Majesty's will." Li Xiao and Mu Jianming were the loudest, firstly because they were young and vigorous, and secondly, because they were both sons of nobles, and they always felt that others looked down on them for their commanding position by relying on their families, so they were eager to seek merit.

Zhu Jun said lightly: "You Aiqing don't need to say much, I have made up my mind, and I will never raise troops for barbarian rudeness." Go back, all of you. ”

The generals persuaded for a while, and seeing that Zhu Jun was unmoved, they had to say nothing, Zhu Jun stood up and said, "I have been bored in the palace all day these days, and you go with me." I heard that the shipyard has laid the keel, so why don't you go with me to have a look. ”

The shipyard was located near the port, and was a large number of Han craftsmen with 130 Han craftsmen, 42 Spanish shipwrights, and 39 captives from the Dutch shipbuilders, plus thousands of Burmese laborers.

There are two kinds of ships produced by the shipyard, one is the warship required by the sailor, and the other is the ordinary merchant ship. The warship is complex and consumes a lot of manpower, and so far no one has been built. Merchant ships, on the other hand, were built quite a bit. In just three months, more than 40 ships were sold, making a lot of profits for Zhu Jun.

At this time, the Burmese laborers were transporting the long logs cut down in the distant forests into the shipyard by horse-drawn carts, and then the carpenters in the timber workshop sawed the long logs into the size required by the shipwrights, and then sent them to the production workshop for processing and polishing, and finally they were sent to the workshop of laying the warship.

"Your Majesty, look. That is all the big warships we have built, and the Ministry of Industry has already thought of the name of this battleship, which is called Dingnan. ”

"Hmm!" Zhu Jun dealt with the person in charge of the shipyard, and his eyes were attracted by the huge battleship keel in the distance: "Why is this battleship so huge?" ”

The average Western warship has reached the limit of more than 40 zhang, but the keel of the battleship in front of Zhu Jun is at least 70 zhang, and I don't know how much wood and labor are consumed.

"Your Majesty." The person in charge of the shipyard of the Ministry of Industry had a bitter face and said: "In fact, there was also a dispute about this matter, and the Han shipwrights at that time disagreed with the Western ships and went to the Ministry of Industry to quarrel together. Han shipwrights said that since the battleship must be large, and it is the right way to speed up the ship with many masts and sails, while the Western shipwright thought that it was the right thing for the battleship to be strong and sharp, so it should be strengthened to reserve more artillery positions. The two sides could not argue, and the director of the shipyard in charge of the Ministry of Industry had no choice but to let the two shipwrights work together to come up with a comprehensive plan, so there was this warship. ”

Zhu Jun nodded secretly. There is nothing wrong with the Han craftsmen in pursuing large size and speed. After all, in addition to sailors and gunners, Zhu Jun's sailors also had quite a lot of sailors and marines for landing operations. And there is nothing wrong with Western shipwrights pursuing strong guns. When the sailors fight the enemy ships on the sea, they need the ship's strong guns, otherwise the hull will be nothing more than a floating coffin at sea, no matter how large.

Han shipwrights have experience in building large ships, and Western ships have experience in building strong ships, so it is not wrong for the Ministry of Industry to judge them to work together to develop a set of comprehensive warships. Zhu Jun is quite supportive of this approach.

"You let it go, and the silver taels you need will naturally make up for you, no matter what you create in the future, I will not blame you." Zhu Jun cheered up the person in charge of the shipyard. Failure is not terrible, what is terrible is the loss of the enterprising spirit of research, the dispute between the two shipwrights is actually a collision of Eastern and Western cultures, the Ming Dynasty was able to build a fortune ship nearly 50 zhang long a century ago, with a terrifying displacement of 5,000 to 10,000 tons, a large treasure ship with nine masts and 12 sails, and a carrying capacity of 9,800 tons, while the displacement of Western warships at this time was only 2,000 to 4,000 tons, three to five masts, and the carrying capacity was less than half of the treasure ship.

But Western warships were not completely inadequate, and due to frequent naval battles, Western warships were much more powerful than the ships in terms of hull reinforcement and the number of guns. Therefore, the ships built by Zhu Jun not only required speed and volume, but also absorbed more Western experience in terms of hull and artillery.

"How long will it take for this ship to be built?" Zhu Jun is very interested in this behemoth and can't wait to test its performance.

"Back to the emperor, it will be five months at the earliest, and it will be completed in three months at the earliest, because this is the first time to build a large warship, so it will take more time, and you will be able to save a lot of effort when rebuilding it in the future."